Engineered with a love for music, skinned in Zune nostalgia, and refined down to the last pixel, MusiK is a slick music player plasmoid, based on MPRIS2, Crafted for the detail-obsessed. Built for Plasma.
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Fully Customizable Typography MusiK lets you fine-tune the font settings for both the mini and full player views. Choose your preferred font family, size, adjust letter spacing, and toggle capitalization to match your desktop’s personality — or your mood.
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Zune-Inspired Waveform Visualizer A sleek waveform inspired by the iconic Zune interface that reacts to your actual system audio in real time — bass peaks bloom in the center and fan out toward the highs at the edges. Fully tunable from the settings: bell shape, reactivity, punch, glow, motion blur, peak cap tint and more.
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Adaptive Accents from Album Art MusiK samples the dominant color from your album art and uses it to accent key UI elements — like the audio visualizer, seek bar, text, and buttons — creating a player that visually matches every track.
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Customizable spacing Adjust the spacing between the UI elements to suit your aesthetic preferences. Whether you prefer a compact look or a more spacious layout, MusiK has you covered.
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Smooth Animations & Scroll Behavior The subtle animations and scroll behavior ensure a fluid and responsive experience.
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Built for Plasma Designed to blend effortlessly with your Plasma theme, it feels right at home on your desktop. Specifically tailored for translucent themes and panels.
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MPRIS2 based MusiK is built on the MPRIS2 protocol, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of media players. It works seamlessly with popular players like Spotify, VLC, and more.
- A longer demo
The widget itself needs nothing beyond Plasma 6. The live audio visualizer is powered by a tiny Python backend that ships inside the widget and starts automatically — there is nothing to install or configure separately. It only relies on:
| Dependency | Install | Notes |
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python3 |
— | Preinstalled on virtually every distro |
numpy |
pacman -S python-numpy · apt install python3-numpy · dnf install python3-numpy |
Used for the FFT |
parec |
— | Ships with libpulse / pulseaudio-utils, already present on any PipeWire or PulseAudio desktop (any Plasma system) |
If anything is missing, the widget still works fine — the visualizer just falls back to a gentle non-reactive animation instead of live audio.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/Rudraksh88/musik-plasmoid /tmp/musik-plasmoid- Install the widget:
kpackagetool6 -i /tmp/musik-plasmoid/com.rudraksh.musik/ --type Plasma/Applet
- Upgrading the widget:
kpackagetool6 -u /tmp/musik-plasmoid/com.rudraksh.musik/ --type Plasma/Applet- Removing the widget:
kpackagetool6 -r com.rudraksh.musik --type Plasma/Applet- Add dynamic waveform visualizer that reacts to the music.
- Add settings for changing sizes of icons and other UI elements.
- Text Animations on song change.
- Opaque backgrounds (irrespective of the Plasma theme)
- Clean up the settings UI.
Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
This plasmoid was powered up using 100% organically-sourced, sustainably-grown coffee and a lot of late nights. If it brought you joy, consider providing a treat — coffee, snacks and beer accepted. Donations may unlock bonus content (or at least a grin).
Only for India UPI: rudraksh-tripathi@ibl
This project began as a fork of plasmusic-toolbar by ccatterina. Since then, it has evolved substantially, and I would like to acknowledge the original author for their work which served as the foundation for this project.
MusiK Plasmoid Copyright (C) 2025 Rudraksh Tripathi
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.
See the LICENSE file for the complete license text.